The Front (1976, dir. Martin Ritt)
“Fellas… I don’t recognize the right of this committee to ask me these kind of questions. And furthermore, you can all go fuck yourselves.” I love the partial freeze frame effect — one that doesn’t try to hide itself, in fact, exposes the material the images are made on — I saw it again the other day in The Matrix. This movie is also noteworthy because Woody Allen is not writing or directing, which means some of his tics are repressed and we see him in shots he rarely uses (shot-reverse-shots and close-ups). It is similar to the experience of watching Larry David in Woody Allen’s most recent movie Whatever Works. which was supposedly originally written for Zero Mostel, Allen’s co-star here.
The Front (1976, dir. Martin Ritt)
“Fellas… I don’t recognize the right of this committee to ask me these kind of questions. And furthermore, you can all go fuck yourselves.” I love the partial freeze frame effect — one that doesn’t try to hide itself, in fact, exposes the material the images are made on — I saw it again the other day in The Matrix. This movie is also noteworthy because Woody Allen is not writing or directing, which means some of his tics are repressed and we see him in shots he rarely uses (shot-reverse-shots and close-ups). It is similar to the experience of watching Larry David in Woody Allen’s most recent movie Whatever Works. which was supposedly originally written for Zero Mostel, Allen’s co-star here.
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